Prestige mode is live! I’ll be running it with a team as soon as it goes live on Xbox one. I have roughly 8 completions on normal mode and know how to run every role on every boss in the raid, so I’ll keep my eyes open for anything that’s different!
Here I will list all the differences from normal mode to prestige mode for those who are at work/school or otherwise can’t find out themselves right away.
Drop an upvote or comment to save this in your list so you can keep an eye on the changes!
And if you’re on Xbox one and you’re looking for a good raid team, feel free to add me!
- Arrgoat
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PRESTIGE MODE
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Entire Raid Changes
[spoiler]Loadouts - NOT locked! :)
Revives - Just like trials. You have a revive token. Once you revive one person, you can’t revive again for that challenge or until you wipe. ALSO, if you DIE you LOSE your revive token and can’t revive anyone. So dying really takes away two revives from the team, because not only do you need to be revived, but you can no longer revive anyone else.
Enemies- all enemies are MUCH tougher. Even with a full team of 300+ it’s proven a challenge. Bring high DPS high ammo guns.
Raid Access- you can not access hard mode unless you have beaten normal mode. [/spoiler]
Listed in this weeks order
Courtyard (Opening Doors)
[spoiler]All enemies are BULLET SPONGES. Bring a very good heavy and a roaming super.[/spoiler]
Gauntlet
[spoiler]PLATFORMS - Two psions spawn after you shoot arrows. The normal one at the bottom of the arrows, and a floating one that spawns in a random location that needs shot down.
Need a different runner each time. Every person must run once!
During the last phase of running there are 3 orbs per connect-4 Wall, instead of 4.[/spoiler]
Dogs (Pleasure Gardens)
[spoiler]8 dogs now! 2 new dogs, one at rock and one at L2.[/spoiler]
Baths/Pools
[spoiler]During your DPS phase there are more bathers that spawn.
Once your first DPS phase is done you can NOT go back to your original plates. Instead the game randomly assigns 4 people a plate. When DPS is done you will see a symbol on your screen (sun, chalice, dog, axe). You must go to this plate.[/spoiler]
Calus (Final Boss)
[spoiler]No more Throne room or Void teams anymore. As soon as a throne room person kills a psion they are teleported into the void and a random person is teleported out of the void. This happens for each phase of symbols, so 3 times each run on the void.[/spoiler]
Legend of Acrius
[spoiler]Completing the final step of the quest doesn’t award an upgraded gun. The reward for the final step is simply an ornament for the shotgun that you already have.[/spoiler]
I think that’s everything! My thoughts; hard mode is not for your casual gamer. You need all 6 people to be seasoned gamers and seasoned raiders. Everyone needs to know just about every role during every fight since the random rotations force everyone to play every role. But knowing isn’t enough, you need to have good communication and the skills to execute. Just like normal mode, if one person messes up just one thing it sends the team in a downward spiral. This might not be. Raid for LFG, but more so for playing with people you know and play well with so you’re all of equal skill level.
My randoms today couldn’t beat it, but me and my friends will at some point. I gotta have that emblem! Good luck to everyone.
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3 Replies(My thoughts; hard mode is not for your casual gamer.) Bye bye secret exotic guests.
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Worthless......https://youtu.be/Xdzu5JIzIxU
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7 RepliesThis hard raid is the epitome of our sh-I-tty society. Nobody willing to work hard for something that’s worthwhile. Everyone is equal 🙄 It’s ok if you can’t beat it you’re still as special as everyone else! 🤢🤢🤢 Sickening
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Interesting...but one flaw. I thought we as a community liked the idea of being banished to the shadow realm and not the "void"...if its even called that seeing as a robot to an emperor has the power of the void. I havent read up on the lore yet so i may be wrong on that.
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43 RepliesAbsolutely worthless
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I see so much rage and anger towards this post in the comments. I was really ready to stop playing destiny yesterday but after reading this I'm actually very happy. This is better then I could have ever expected. A actually hard hard raid? Is it possible? This about challenge mode what will they be like if the hard raid is like this. I mean for a seasoned veteran it's not hard but maybe a bit challenging. Tjey have done more changes to the fights then ever before. Really looking for ways to doing this today.
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3 RepliesThis crazy post is making my penis soft
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2 RepliesSo I get a golden star like I did in kindergarten ? Really ?
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Thanks for the update. This makes me feel more justified in my decision to give up on the IB grind and officially become a filthy casual. If Bungie doesn't want to properly reward hardcore fans/players they're going to end up without any.
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This is so funny
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1 ReplyYea I don't think I'll be taking part in this. If I had a good team to do it with then maybe. But most of my clan have already left to other games and they're prolly not good enough to do this anyways. It's mostly just me and another that are good enough for this. And Bungie really didn't provide a incentive for me beating myself over the head with randoms for 5+hrs to want to complete this. I mean what do you really gain by doing it?? Shaders?? Emblem??
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2 RepliesI'm glad I'm not the only person that calls them Connect-4 walls.
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2 RepliesWhat cosmetics do you get from hard mode? They better be pretty damn cool to make up for no hardmode exclusives. And if they're not, I'm probably just going to stick to normal mode.
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2 RepliesHaven't done prestige nightfall. Probably won't do the prestige raid.
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5 RepliesI forgot it was even being released today. That's how exciting that is.
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2 RepliesLmao releasing a hard mode for cosmetics only Bungie y'all wild
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15 RepliesEdited by Crota Prime: 10/18/2017 11:40:56 PMI just don't understand... It just seems like maybe Bungie doesn't realize what originally made Destiny so unique and fun to play.
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7 RepliesEdited by $hirtless Captain Kirk: 10/19/2017 1:44:47 AMAppreciate the list but it's impossible to put a team together. Even my most diehard friends just don't see the point. You better vett LFG people as to MOTIVATION. After revealing it was only cosmetic rewards and actually difficult, we couldn't keep ANYONE. We only needed 2 people and we're all very experienced and seasoned raiders. Pretty telling sign Destiny is dead.
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6 RepliesEdited by i_dont_give_adam: 10/19/2017 1:03:40 AMI'm doing this for the unreal raid perk gear! Oh, no that's not a thing. Ok, I'm doing it for the hard mode exclusive gear! Oh, no that's not a thing either. Ok ok, I'm doing it for the.... for the.... Um, for the, um.... Oh yeah for that.... errr.... ....wait, why would I do this again? [spoiler]prestige level friendship!!! That's..... Not why at all....[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyBasically the Hard Mode Raid is not worth our time unless we want more Tokens and a different Shader. I think I'm just going to load into Hard Mode, open the first door and get my Shaders, then propose we finish on Normal.
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1 ReplyIt's awesome that there's a hard mode cosmetic armor set..but the drop rates in the Raid are so damn low because of the token system. Guess what? Can't use tokens for the prestige armor so good luck ever finishing a set. Why can't Bungie ever get raid drops right?
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1 ReplyLol for the first time ever, i just dont care about this raid anymore, we get cosmetic gear.. i thinik im done, i will raid tonight, it may be my last night on destiny until the next expansion.. i did not know i would give up so soon... i have smashed every thing that Bungie has thorwn my way.. because bungue always gave good rewards for hard work. not anymore.
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I really wish I can find myself wanting to do the raid, I love doing challenging stuff. But I also want to be rewarded for my time, and a weapon ornament for a weapon I am never gonna use isn't really worth my time
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1 ReplySo, the prestige raid's difficulty comes from [i]keeping people to beat the raid[/i]. It's a bold move, let's see how it pays off.
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3 RepliesSo the calus fight is easier than the normal fight on normal? Or do you still shokt the skulls for the damage boost?
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27 RepliesNever thought I'd say this, but I actually miss kings fall lol